Rsync with spaces in source or destination path

[paresh masani]

Got it work with single slash. :-)

# /usr/local/bin/rsync --archive /u/masanip/ACH/test\ file /tmp/mydir/

On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 2:34 AM, paresh masani <masaniparesh at gmail.com>wrote:

> Please note that double quates is working but I want to make it work with
> "\\\".
>
> For example, ==> /usr/local/bin/rsync --archive "/u/masanip/ACH/test file"
> /tmp/mydir/ <== is working but  ==> /usr/local/bin/rsync --archive
> /u/masanip/ACH/test\\\ file /tmp/mydir/ <== not.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 2:29 AM, paresh masani <masaniparesh at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi, I am trying to transfer a file that has spaces in its name. The rsync
>> gives me below error. Am I doing anything wrong?
>>
>> #ls -l /tmp/test\ file
>> -rw-rw-r--   1 xxx  xxx        0 Jul  5 02:23 /tmp//test file
>>
>> # /usr/local/bin/rsync --archive /u/masanip/ACH/test\\\ file /tmp/mydir/
>> rsync: link_stat "/tmp/test\ file" failed: No such file or directory (2)
>>
>> Number of files: 0
>> Number of files transferred: 0
>> Total file size: 0 bytes
>> Total transferred file size: 0 bytes
>> Literal data: 0 bytes
>> Matched data: 0 bytes
>> File list size: 9
>> File list generation time: 0.001 seconds
>> File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
>> Total bytes sent: 121
>> Total bytes received: 12
>>
>> sent 121 bytes  received 12 bytes  29.56 bytes/sec
>> total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
>> rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors)
>> (code 23) at main.c(1039) [sender=3.0.6]
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>
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